The Palm Beach Lead-Butt 360

Class 2 Ride 190 Miles 5.5 Hrs. Saddle OK, you've all heard of the Iron Butt Rides. Rich is planning one that goes around the entire State of Florida in 24 hours or maybe 36. Either way, it's about 1,500 miles and definitely a great Iron Butt Ride. Of course, lead is software than iron and some of us can't get the lead out for an iron ride. I've come up with a ride around Palm Beach County for the softer butts... lead if you would. Due to the shape of our county we have to leave it for a bit to maintain a 360. We reclaim that mileage by skipping the little trip to the western extreme of the county south of Clewiston. 8:00 - Our journey starts at our meeting destination for breakfast. Come at 9:00 if you eat at home. 8:45 - Pre-ride meeting 9:00 - Kick stands up and we head for the ocean. This part of the ride is familiar to many of our group and is very scenic. It's also very, very slow and takes what seems forever. 10:30 - By now we should be out of Jupiter and headed for Port Mayaca. This is the part that takes us out of the county, but at least we get our speeds up from 25MPH beach rides to 65MPH back roads. 11:15 - a short break on the levee and time for some pictures 11:30 - back on the road headed south towards Belle Glade. Fuel stop in Belle Glade for those that need it. 1:00 - back in the Wellington-Royal Palm Beach-Loxahatchee area and some are getting hungry. We'll stop at Gator Dockside where there's a variety of things to eat. 2:00 - back on the road headed south to Boca Raton and then back out to the ocean to return north and complete the circle. 4:00 - this ride should be over. With a little luck we might trim off an hour, but this Lead-Butt ride has a lot of slow speed zones along the ocean. It's a long Lead-Butt day, but you didn't really go that far. You ate twice and had pit-stops to enjoy your friends. Sure, there's not a nationally sanctioned certificate but you circumvented Palm Beach County and lived to tell about it. Link to Map Maximum of 3 Guests. If you have more, ask them to join our group.